Iran says wants to ‘kick-start’ nuke talks to quickly reach deal
Iran says wants to ‘kick-start’ nuke talks to quickly reach deal | JPost | Israel News.
UNITED NATIONS – Iran’s foreign minister expressed the hope on Wednesday that a meeting with the five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany this week will kick-start negotiations to resolve the decade-long dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program.
Asked what he expected from the meeting on Thursday with his counterparts from the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said: “a jump-start to the negotiations … with a view to reaching an agreement within the shortest span.”
Speaking after a meeting with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, he added: “The Islamic Republic has the political readiness and political will for serious negotiations and we are hopeful that the opposite side has this will as well.”
“We … had a good discussion about the start of nuclear talks and the talks that will take place tomorrow at the foreign ministerial level between Iran and the P5+1,” Zarif said.
US Secretary of State John Kerry will join Fabius, British Foreign Secretary William Hague, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the German and Chinese foreign ministers for the meeting. Also present will be European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
The meeting bringing the top US diplomat and new Iranian foreign minister around the same conference table will be highly unusual given the United States has not maintained diplomatic relations with Iran since 1980.
In his UN speech on Tuesday, US President Barack Obama cautiously embraced overtures from Iran’s new president as the basis for a possible nuclear deal, but a failed effort to arrange a simple handshake between the two leaders underscored entrenched distrust that will be hard to overcome.
Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s new centrist president, used his debut at the world body on Tuesday to pledge Iran’s willingness to engage immediately in “time-bound” talks on the nuclear issue. He offered no new concessions and repeated many of Iran’s grievances against the United States, and Washington’s key Middle East ally, Israel.
Iran has been negotiating with the so-called P5+1 since 2006 about its nuclear program, which Western powers and their allies suspect is aimed at developing a nuclear-weapons capability. Tehran says its nuclear program is entirely peaceful and that having an atomic arsenal is a violation of Islamic law.
Iran has been hit with painful US, European Union and UN sanctions for refusing to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
WarSclerotic 
September 25, 2013 at 9:14 PM
President Obama’s abysmal leadership – yet nobody cares
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2013/09/president-obamas-abysmal-leadership-yet.html
September 25, 2013 at 9:18 PM
Its more like the History is walking in front of us, the spectators, and all that we can do is to watch it. Sometimes, the History is walking on the edge of the abyss.
September 25, 2013 at 9:35 PM
In a paradoxical manner, in this pacifist atmosphere, when everyone wants to kiss everybody and Iran is ready to tango with Obama, in this atmosphere, the probability of an Israeli sudden strike on the Iranian’s nuclear facilities and military assets is growing exponentially; knowing the truth, the Israeli leadership could restrain itself from action until now because the sanctions were working.
But now, when the Iranian ”Prince Charming” is ready to ”strike” a deal with Obama and the sanctions will be undermined, the Israeli military and political leadership have nothing to count on anymore, but a military action which will became more inevitable as the talks with the Iranians will progress in the direction of leaving the sanctions.
In this situation, no political international threat will be an issue for Israel, because its very existence is on the stake here. Becoming a ”pariah” ? We are, in fact, a pariah since the dawn of the civilization.
September 25, 2013 at 10:02 PM
Being a “pariah” necessitates being alive.
If being a “pariah” is the only way to live, so be it.
Israel has been a pariah since its creation, as have the Jewish people through history.
” For not just one alone has risen against us to destroy us, but in every generation they rise against us to destroy us; and the Holy One, blessed be He, saves us from their hand!”
September 25, 2013 at 10:07 PM
Definition:
pa·ri·ah noun \pə-ˈrī-ə\ – one that is despised or rejected. Example: Barack Obama
September 26, 2013 at 5:39 PM
Amen.
September 25, 2013 at 10:02 PM
“US military commanders have warned their Israeli counterparts that any action against Iran would severely limit the ability of American forces in the region to mount their own operations against the Iranian nuclear programme by cutting off vital logistical support from Gulf Arab allies.”
Extracted from:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/31/us-warns-israel-strike-iran
Now that Obama and Rouhani want to make nice with each other, what chance does Israel have now for a preemptive strike? I think Obama slammed the door on this sort of action already. If Israel moves on Iran, it will be without Obama’s blessings.
September 25, 2013 at 10:07 PM
If we have to move to stay alive, Obama can go FUCK HIMSELF!
This isn’t some goddamned political game a la Ted Cruz and Harry Reid.
This is the survival of the Jewish people.
September 25, 2013 at 10:24 PM
How much internal political support does President Netanyahu have for such action at this point? There’s got to be a lot political posturing going on between the parties. I ask, because I just don’t know. Can an Israeli president act unilaterally without legislative approval? … or… has approval been given and all that’s necessary is a command from Netanyahu? I think the focus now is on the internal workings in Israel and how far along this whole march to war has advanced.
September 25, 2013 at 10:34 PM
If intelligence is convincing that Iran is closing in on the bomb, there isn’t an Israeli who won’t support action to stop it.
Left, right, old, young…. We all want to stay alive, thank you.
I said it before, but in the US it’s really hard to understand this…
THIS ISN’T POLITICS! IT’S SURVIVAL…..
Survival is not something the US worries about. Jews have a somewhat different perspective….
Until you understand that, you’ll always miscalculate about Israel.
September 25, 2013 at 10:45 PM
Hi, Steve. Netanyahu is the Prime Minister and Peres is the President. In Israel, the President has a ceremonial role, mostly.
The Prime Minister is taking decisions and he bring them to the cabinet of the ministers for being approved or being rejected, if the ministers are opposing the prime minister and he is in minority. Usually, the Prime Minister wont bring decisions to the cabinet that he knows he will lose. The Prime Minister can fire a minister or a group of ministers that are opposing the cabinet decision. Firing too many ministers, the Prime Minister can find himself in a position of being obliged to dissolve its government and in this case there are elections. In this specific case? If the Army says yes and the situation is really critical, I mean all are kissing everybody else and the sanctions are history, if the ministers will be convinced that the military option is the only option and the Army says yes, in this case jets with pilots will be on the air. The pilots will get the cod name of the operation only in the last moment and the next day we all will wake up into a new, very different, morning.
September 25, 2013 at 11:28 PM
Thanks Luis. That’s what I was asking for, a primer on the workings of the Israeli government. In your opinion, without provocation, where are we now in this process and how fast can they get to the code name phase?
September 25, 2013 at 11:42 PM
To Steve: In my opinion, in this stage, no such a decision was put on the cabinet table, but the Army is ready for this operation for a long time; One scenario can be this: all the relevant ministers are called by surprise, the doors are shut behind them; the PM is communicating them that the Army is recommending to do it now, so they don’t have much of a choice in this situation, but to approve. Meantime, the assets have been already deployed and the operation begin. The critical factor is the Army position.
September 26, 2013 at 3:43 AM
Thanks again Luis. I have to admit. This has been one heck of a day on JW’s blog. Never a dull moment eh?